‘Sound of Metal’ scores with 2 Oscars: film written, directed by local Marder brothers
Director Darius Marder, of Ashfield, left, and Abraham Marder, a musician from Amherst, arrive at the Oscars on Sunday at Union Station in Los Angeles. Their movie “Sound of Metal” won two Oscars in the editing category and for its sound design. AP PHOTO/CHRIS PIZZELLO
Nicolas Becker celebrates after he won Best Sound for “Sound of Metal” at a screening of the Oscars on Monday in Paris, France. AP PHOTO/LEWIS JOLY
Mexican sound engineers Michelle Couttolenc, left, and Jaime Baksht pose in a sound studio in Mexico City, March 18. The Oscar-winning movie “Sound of Metal,” about a heavy metal drummer that starts going deaf, has three Mexican sound engineers. The film won in the editing category and for its sound design. AP PHOTO/BERENICE BAUTISTA
The Eruptor: High-tech research center advances in Amherst
Backers of The Eruptor Lab have a purchase-and-sale agreement on land in North Amherst near the Mill District.
A artist’s rendering shows the 80,000-square-foot building that will house the technology and manufacturing incubator, which will bring together businesses, UMass researchers and scientists.
Published: 4/23/2021 8:24:02 PM
AMHERST Three-dimensional printing, laser technology and other sophisticated manufacturing equipment, to be housed in a large building in North Amherst, will provide incubation space for companies to build, develop, test and improve their products.
“This is consistent with the intellectual capital that is the backbone of the Amherst economy,” said former State Senate President Stanley Rosenberg, a principal with nuForj LLC of Springfield that is planning The Eruptor Lab, a project aimed at diversifying the town’s economy, improving its tax base and bringing 75 high-paying jobs to
Reparations forum set for Tuesday in Amherst
A car rolls past a rusted town line sign, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, in Amherst. AP FILE PHOTO/CHARLES KRUPA
Published: 4/23/2021 10:17:14 AM
AMHERST Historic and ongoing racial disparities among Amherst residents uncovered by a group seeking to find a way for the town to offer reparations to Black residents will be presented at a forum next week.
A virtual “Symposium on Reparations” takes place Tuesday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. featuring brief research presentations and talks by Reparations for Amherst co-founders Michele Miller and Matthew Andrews.
Miller said that discrepancies between Black and white residents in areas such as housing, education, health, transportation and upward mobility have been identified by participants, but that it was often a struggle to get statistics and only came after extensive digging.
AMHERST An unarmed and civilian program whose workers would respond to many calls for service in place of town police officers is being proposed by the Community Safety Working Group. The group is also proposing a robust Civilian Oversight Board to.
Poet, UMass prof Donald Junkins dies at 89
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Published: 4/22/2021 11:21:14 AM
Donald Junkins a poet, professor and longtime Franklin County resident died last Thursday from complications of heart disease. He was 89 years old.
Though he and his wife Kamei Zheng had moved to California in 2019, Junkins spent most of his life in Massachusetts, and lived in Franklin County for his entire three-decade tenure at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, plus about 10 years after his retirement, according to his son Daniel Junkins.
At UMass, Junkins taught creative writing and was recognized as an expert on Ernest Hemingway. He argued against critiques claiming that Hemingway’s work is misogynistic.